Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> There have been a handful of runaway reactions in 23 years. Very rare. > There > is no reliable evidence of infinite COP for more than a few hours, without > runaway. > There have been many high COP runs lasting hours, and some heat after death events lasting hours or days. If something can happen once by accident, we can find out what made it happen, and trigger it deliberately a billion times a day. That is what people did with electricity, starting with Franklin. Runaways have happened - the one of Vince Cockeram being little known and > similar to Rossi's, reported to Vortex years ago. This risk is exactly why > achieving adequate control will always require design choices that limit > COP > to a lower level. Yes, runaways have happened. And stable operation at high COPs has also happened. High COPs have been achieved without explosions. Therefore they are possible. Therefore they will eventually be perfected. Your statement reminds me of what James Watt said about high pressure steam engines. He held back the development of them because they were dangerous. Even when the technology improved and they become less dangerous, he continued to oppose them. Just because a high COP may be risky now, at this early stage of the development when practically nothing is known about the nature of cold fusion, there is no reason to think this danger will continue. There is irrefutable evidence that safe, high COP operation is possible -- because it has been done. Trying to judge the future of cold fusion by looking at today's laboratory prototypes and Rossi's machine is like trying to imagine a Boeing 747 after seeing the 1905 Wright Flyer. Or imagining a modern aeroderivative turbine after seeing the Newcomen steam engine. Once we get real funding the technology will be thousands and then millions of times better. Better understood, better controlled, and better scaled up and down. - Jed
